Lot 11
  • 11

Burney, Charles.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • A General History of Music, London: for the author (and sold by Payne & son etc), 1776-1789
  • paper
first edition, 4 volumes, 4to (27 x 21cms), engraved portrait and frontispieces to volumes 1 & 3, engraved plates (including extensive music examples) and folding woodcuts, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners to volume 1 bumped [Hirsch, i 126]



Burney, The Present State of Music in France and Italy, London, T. Beckett, 1771; The Present State of Music in Germany, The Netherlands, and United Provinces...in two volumes, T. Beckett, J. Robson, and G. Robinson, 1773; first editions, 3 volumes, 8vo (c.19.5-20.5 x 12.5cms), indices, errata and advertisements, contemporary calf, spines in compartments, red-gilt labels, bookplates of Lady Frances Scott and Gerald Cooke, [Gregory & Bartlett, i, 48; RISM Écrits, p.192], 

Condition

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